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5 Anxiety Symptoms In Men YOU Should Spot! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here are five anxiety symptoms in men that you
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  definitely need to spot. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on autism and
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  mental health. So if you're new around here and
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  So anxiety, can it hit you hard? Of course it can.
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  And it impacts anybody and everybody.
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  But there are like lots of people out there, especially
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  men, who think it's very masculine, to not talk about
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  their issues or their mental health and kind of like brush it
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  off and kind of, I don't know, it shows a sign of weakness if
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  you say that you have mental health issues for some people
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  anyway, because that's the kind of construct that society has
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  dealt with and given us at the moment.
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  So I decided that it was important that we understand the
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  issues that men face when they're having anxiety attacks
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  and anxiety symptoms. So.
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  So I have put out five anxiety symptoms in men that you
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  definitely need to know. And yeah, let's start right now,
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  guys. The first one here is a racing
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  heart. Now when adrenaline starts
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  pumping around your body due to like increased anxiety, your
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  heart rate will actually start beating more rapidly.
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  So as it's like beating more rapidly, you know, it's
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  everything going on and you're getting more kind of like our
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  breath and your heart beating rapidly.
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  This is a very, very telltale sign that you're getting
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  anxious. So what would I say is that you
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  have to watch out for this as an early warning sign for being
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  anxious. Your heart starts beating,
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  you'll definitely know about it, 'cause you can feel it in your
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  chest. Your heart start beating right
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  out your chest. Like it's definitely something
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  to look out for and nothing to be ashamed of.
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  You just need to kind of go, OK, well, maybe I'm feeling a bit
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  anxious right now. My heart rate is increased.
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  You can also use an Apple Watch or something like that to kind
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  of like track your heart rate to see if it increases anywhere.
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  Good tip, OK #2 is excessive sweating.
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  Now when you're like, you know, pumping adrenaline around your
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  body and your heart racing, of course you're going to start
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  sweating. That's why when you work out,
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  isn't it, your heart rate increases and you sweat.
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  So if you are sweating quite a lot and sweating excessively,
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  this is an indication that you're online, heading straight
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  for an anxiety attack. And anxiety is creeping up on
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  you. But you know, your heart rate is
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  beating out your chest and you start sweating, you got sweat
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  your palms. You're like, Oh my goodness.
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  You know, this is something that happens when you are feeling
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  agitated and when you're feeling anxious.
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  So bear that in mind. Okay.
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  So #3 is muscle tension. Now, muscle tension happens
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  because your body is going to fight or flight mode, which
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  means it thinks that it needs to kind of tense up in case you
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  need to fight something. And then you, you need to kind
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  of go running from danger or whatever, right.
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  And that's what the fight or fight things for because
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  adrenaline gets released into your body and then that's what
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  happens. But your muscles will start
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  tensing up because if you're just like walking around the
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  shop and you get an anxiety attack and your body thinks you
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  have to fight a Saber tooth tiger and your body start
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  tensing up, you'll feel your muscles just kind of getting all
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  tense. And it's, yeah, it's not a good
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  feeling. And that tense lasts a long,
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  long time. Actually, after after the panic
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  attack happens, you'll be feeling sore from it, as if
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  you've just done a workout. #4 here is restlessness or
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  agitation. Now due to the male dominance of
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  testosterone, agitation will be a prominent experience when
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  you're experiencing anxiety, which means that you'll be quite
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  tense and and snappy and and agitated and everything will
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  become fight or flight. Because that's what's happening.
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  You're you're experiencing a mode that is there to protect
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  you against, Same with tigers or glaciers or whatever.
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  And so, you know, you're working on the store and something
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  happens and it's like, well, why is there a fight or flight
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  happening in the store? Because we're now triggered by
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  involuntary actions. That all causes anxiety and
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  causes fear and causes to have all of these things coming into
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  play. But bear in mind these are all
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  symptoms of anxiety and the potential anxiety attacks.
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  So #5 is the dizziness of Vertigo.
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  So after having a rush of a dry line around your body and the
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  fight or flight thing coming in, your brain will start to kind of
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  be like, whoa, it needs a bit of air and a bit of space and maybe
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  become dizzy and a bit of Vertigo and not be able to focus
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  on what you're doing because your body's just gone through
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  like a workout, like a marathon, if you will.
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  You know, it's just done all of this stuff and just worked
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  itself up because at the end of the day, you you would
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  potentially fight for your life in your body's response to
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  stuff. So these five symptoms are your
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  best way of understanding your body and your best way of
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  understanding, hey, do I have an anxiety issue?
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  Do I have anxiety? Is that coming on?
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  This is how you deal with it. That's, that's what it is.
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  You know, you have to listen to your body.
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  You have to listen to what happened.
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  So you know, if you're a guy, you're watching this or you're a
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  partner and you know your partner's a guy and you're kind
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  of watching this, watch out for these symptoms and definitely
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  just kind of take it easy. There's a bunch of stuff that
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  I've done about how to help for anxiety.
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  I'll leave it in a card in the end screen and I'll put it in
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  the description down below where you can check out more hacks for
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  how to avoid anxiety attacks and how to lower anxiety in general.
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  So guys, if you found value in this video, please share it on
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  Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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  Give it a thumbs up. It helps me out.
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  And I'll see you next time guys. Peace.